ARTICLES ABOUT FATAL STABBING BY DATE - PAGE 5

A man was fatally stabbed in east Baltimore in the early hours of Saturday morning, two men were shot Saturday night and a man and a woman were shot Sunday in the city, police said. Police said officers reached the stabbing victim, identified as James Floyd Vincent, 55, in the 400 block of N. Duncan Street at 1:32 a.m. He had been seen running in the 2000 block of Monument Street before collapsing to the ground bleeding from the neck, according to police. He was being treated by medics for the stab wound when officers arrived and was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly before 2 a.m. A man was shot in the foot in the 100 block of N. Potomac Street in the Patterson Park neighborhood at 9:30 p.m. after allegedly trying to rob another man who turned out to be armed, police said.

City police are investigating a fatal stabbing Monday in the Broadway East neighborhood. Officers responded at 3:37 p.m. to the 1800 block of North Rutland Ave., where they found an unidentified man lying in the street and bleeding from his chest.The victim, who is listed as a John Doe, died at 4:24 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com

A neighbor of a woman found stabbed death this week in Pigtown has been charged in her killing, police said Thursday. Police say Antonio Johnson, 52, of the 1200 block of Washington Blvd., has been charged with the murder of Deborah Simon, 55, who had moved a few doors down after her home caught fire in August. Johnson has been in jail since Nov. 4 on an unrelated assault charge - the day before Simon was found by a relative. But police believe the killing occurred on Nov. 3, and say they found some of her stolen belongings, including a television and cell phone. "We believe he was looking for money, and she let him in because he was a neighbor," spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. Court records show Johnson has been picked up for drug and assault cases.

Baltimore County police charged an Essex man Monday with stabbing his girlfriend after officers found her body wrapped in a blanket on his kitchen floor. Police say John W. Falkenstein Jr. of Essex stabbed Janet Palasik, 48, after the two got into an argument. Palasik's daughter had called 911 Monday to have officers to check on her mother who had gone to Falkenstein's home in the 700 block of Myrth Ave. on Nov. 4, police said. Officers spoke to Falkenstein at the home, and found Palasik, of the 1100 block of Maple Road in Essex, on the kitchen floor covered with a blanket.

A woman was found fatally stabbed Monday evening inside a home in Pigtown, one of several recent violent incidents being investigated by Baltimore police. Police also were probing three fatal shootings that occurred Saturday and Sunday, including a home-invasion robbery that killed a 26-year-old man near Lake Ashburton and the killing of a 29-year-old man in front of his wife and young children in Northeast Baltimore. Police also confirmed that a 32-year-old downtown resident suffered skull fractures during an attack in the middle of the afternoon Friday near the 1st Mariner Arena and Bromo Seltzer tower, and said a 75-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint that morning in Fells Point.

Police on Sunday identified the man who was fatally stabbed during a domestic dispute Saturday morning in East Baltimore as Shawn Antoine Brown. Brown, 40, of the 700 block of N. Rose St., was found stabbed in the torso by police about 8:40 a.m. Police said a female suspect was taken into custody but was released pending further investigation. They would not say whether the stabbing occurred in self-defense and did not identify the suspect. krector@baltsun.com twitter.com/rectorsun

The owner of a Parkville bar can keep his liquor license but must pay a $2,000 fine after the fatal stabbing of a bouncer there over Labor Day weekend. On Monday, the Baltimore County Liquor Board ordered Tee-Bee's Place to pay the fine within 30 days, saying the bar didn't follow security procedures that could have prevented the Sept. 1 killing of bouncer Tavares Jones, who was stabbed while breaking up a fight. Jones' death was the second homicide there since this summer. The bar has also been the subject of complaints from residents, who say it is loud late at night and that patrons take up limited parking on residential streets.

A 27-year-old man was found shot Saturday night in the 600 block of Dumbarton Avenue in the Ednor Gardens area of Baltimore and died a short time later at Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore police said Sunday. Police said officers responded to a report of a shooting at around 8:40 p.m. Saturday and found Antoine Sellers, of the 2600 block of Huron Court, in the middle of the street suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. Also Sunday, police identified the victim of a fatal stabbing Friday in the 2700 block of West North Avenue as Nabil Epps, 34, of the 1000 block of Upnor Road.

A 34-year-old man was stabbed in Baltimore and died of his wounds early Friday morning, while city police identified the victim of a man fatally shot 12 hours before. Police responded to the 2700 block of W. North Ave. around 2 a.m. Friday to a report of a cutting. An officer found the victim, who has not been identified, lying unresponsive on steps at the location having suffered a stab wound to his upper body. He was treated at the scene and transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, but pronounced dead at 2:44 a.m. Thursday afternoon, a 24-year-old man, who police identified Friday as Audie Mickens, was fatally shot near the Gilmor Homes public housing development in West Baltimore.